Netflix has opted against a fourth season of its “One Day at a Time” sitcom reboot, which was based on the original 1976-85 Norman Lear comedy and featured a Cuban-American family. “It’s been a great honor to work with the legendary Norman Lear on One Day at a Time. I’ve personally spoken with Norman and […]
Netflix has announced an upcoming scripted drama called “One Hundred Years of Solitude” based on novel of the same name by Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s. The book was first published in 1967 and since that time has sold an estimated 50 million copies around the world and has been translated into 46 languages*. García Márquez’s sons Rodrigo […]
Netflix has placed a 10-episode order to a new scripted drama called “Firefly Lane,” based on the novel by Kristin Hannah. The logline: Kate and Tully meet as young girls and become inseparable best friends throughout thirty years of ups and downs, successes and failures, depression and disappointments. When an unthinkable betrayal breaks them apart, the two women […]
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Netflix has greenlit a second season of anthology thriller “The Haunting of Hill House,” which will change its title to “The Haunting of Bly Manor.” Each new season will have a different variation of “The Haunting” name. The new season will adapt Henry James’ 1898 novel “The Turn of the Screw,” which tells the story […]
Netflix has greenlit 10 episodes of a half-hour scripted drama called “Medical Police” from the creative behind “Childrens Hospital”…Rob Corddry, Krister Johnson, Jonathan Stern and David Wain. The logline: Two American physicians (Erinn Hayes and Rob Huebel) stationed at a pediatric hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, discover a civilization-threatening virus and are recruited as government agents […]
Netflix has renewed multi-cam sitcom Alexa & Katie for a third season, with an order for 16 new episodes. The logline: the series follows two lifelong best friends (Paris Bereic and Isabel May) on their journey as they face not only the challenges of high school but also the lingering complexities of Alexa’s battle with […]
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Netflix has announced “Bloodride,” a new Norwegian Netflix original series from Monster Scripted and scriptwriter Kjetil Indregard that will be produced in Norway in 2019. The logline: “Bloodride” is a Norwegian language tongue-in-cheek horror anthology series, where each story is set in its own realistic, yet weird universe. Six unique tales of terror, told with glee […]
